Rhode Island International Film Festival 2009

P.S. Krøyer is the undisputed centre of the Skagen painters. He is famous; he is lionized, and married to the most beautiful woman in Copenhagen. He is ignorant of the fact, that he has inherited his mother's mental illness, so he rides the pinnacle of success, until fate catches up with him. This documentary is a tribute to an artistic prodigy, who, in spite of his manic disease, kept "the great party" going, was given room to excel, and thus brought Danish art to an international level. Krøyer brings a whole new way of life to Skagen. An artist's colony is created, and the great party can begin. Everybody wants to go there. Friends, and the friends of friends, are all received in festive style by the colony and its toastmaster Krøyer. "Hip Hip Hurra" becomes the symbol of the two decades of happiness and unity around the turn of the century, where P.S.Krøyer is the central figure in the great breakthrough for a new style of painting at the end of the 1800's. But when his mother's insanity starts to manifest itself in Krøyer, the famous painter faces desperate times. Once he was singing and feeling almost invincible, but now his beautiful life starts to unravel. His wife leaves him, and with her the whole foundation of his idyllic existence disappears. But he has to live on. And maternal Henny Brodersen becomes Krøyers steady loving support until the very end.